Iroquoian Ceramic Data
Part of: William Engelbrecht Resources
Data on some 10,000 New York Iroquois ceramic vessels.
William Engelbrecht began collecting ceramic data in 1968 for his Ph.D. dissertation, A Stylistic Analysis of New York Iroquois Pottery, University of Michigan, 1971 (now uploaded to tDAR). Ceramic attributes and ceramic types were recorded from Iroquoian village sites across New York State dating between the 15th and mid-17th centuries. After his dissertation research, Engelbrecht continued to add to these data. At present, over 10,000 ceramic vessels from 70 Iroquoian sites are represented in this project.
All the sites are briefly described in a document, About the Sites. The document, The Coding Sheet, describes the codes used for ceramic attribute categories and their values. For analysis, many of these values were grouped into larger categories. For example, vessel collar height was measured to the nearest millimeter, but for analysis only five height classes were used (1-11 mm, 12-21 mm, 22-31 mm, 32-41 mm, 42-99 mm). These regrouped attributes are listed in the document, The Coding Sheet along with the original attributes. A third document, The Recording Form document, reproduces the actual form used to record data. One recording form sheet was used for each vessel or portion of a vessel. Some 10,000 of these are now in the archives of Butler Library at Buffalo State College. The contents of a recording form are represented in tDAR as a row of data in a file. All three documents, About the Sites, The Recording Form, and The Coding Sheet, have been uploaded to this project.
In this project, each of the 70 sites is associated with two files: 1) the original attributes recorded and 2) the regrouped attributes. These were originally SPSS files, the former with the extension “.odata” and the latter with the extension “.rpt”. Conversion of these files to a format compatible with tDAR proved to be a major challenge. I hired Rob Peltier with this grant to assist with uploading these files but he encountered numerous difficulties. Initially, technical support staff at Buffalo State were not able to assist with this. We found the following on line: “How to convert SPSS files to Excel.” Initially, these were not helpful until we realized that we needed to have SPSS installed on the computer we were using. Paul Reynolds of Computer Services at Buffalo State gave us access to a computer with SPSS and further assisted us. Though we were able to convert the SPSS files to Excel files, we found that the alignment between the column headings and the values did not match up, making reading the files difficult and confusing. We found that the data display looked best if we turned the SPSS files into a pdf format and uploaded them to tDAR. Thus, the attribute files have been uploaded as document files, even though they are actually data files.
A second goal was to upload articles using these data. These articles were scanned and uploaded by William Engelbrecht.
Investigation Types
Collections Research
Material Types
Ceramic
Temporal Keywords
Late Woodland
Geographic Keywords
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United States of America (Country) •
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North America (Continent)
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Morse (1990)
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Morse Regrouped Ceramic Data (1990)
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Morse Sherd Images (2012)
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These photos were made for Earl Sidler (a SUNY/Buffalo grad student) in the early 1970's.
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Mud Creek (1990)
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Mud Creek Regrouped Ceramic Data (1990)
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New York Iroquois Political Development (1985)
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This paper argues that both New York Iroquois tribes and the League of the Iroquois had their origins in prehistoric times.
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Newton Hopper (1977)
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Newton-Hopper Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1977)
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ceramic data from the Newton-Hopper Site (Niagara Frontier) with regrouped attributes
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Nichols Pond (1974)
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Nichols Pond Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1974)
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ceramic data from the Nichols Pond Site (Oneida) with regrouped attributes
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Nohle (1990)
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Nohle Regrouped Ceramic Attributes (1990)
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Northern New York Revisited (2004)
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A comparison of ceramic type frequencies between northern New York Iroquois sites and sites of the Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk.
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Potacki (1990)
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Potacki Regrouped Ceramic Data (1990)
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Powerhouse (1970)
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Powerhouse Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Powerhouse Site (Seneca) with regrouped attributes
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Putnam (1989)
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Putnam Regrouped Ceramic Data (1989)
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Putnam Sherd Images (2012)
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These images were produced for Earl Sidler (a graduate student at SUNY/Buffalo) in the early 1970's. In the late 1980's, Sidler gave the photos to William Engelbrecht, who in turn gave them to Tim Abel. The photos were borrowed by Engelbrecht from Tim Abel to scan and upload these images.
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Recording Form Sheet for the Iroquoian Ceramic Data Project (1968)
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This is the recording form used for the ceramic analysis in this project. See the Coding Sheet documents for this project contains the list of attributes and codes used for various attribute values. This was created in 1968 and was originally used with punch cards.
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The Reflection of Patterned Behavior in Iroquois Pottery (1972)
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This study sought ceramic reflection of the formation of the League of the Iroquois. This was not found, but it is suggested that the patterning observed reflects female intertribal trade.
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Richmond Mills (1969)
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Richmond Mills Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Richmond Mills Site (Seneca) with regrouped attributes
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Ripley (1987)
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Ripley Ceramics (1996)
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This chapter describes the ceramics from the Ripley site.
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Ripley Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1987)
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ceramic data from the Ripley Site (Erie) with regrouped attributes
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Shelby (1978)
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Shelby Information (2001)
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Nancy Rayner-Herter, The Niagara Frontier Iroquois, Ph.D. diss., SUNY/Buffalo (Anthro.).
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Shelby Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1978)
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ceramic data from the Shelby Site (Niagara Frontier) with regrouped attributes
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Silverheels (1974)
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Silverheels Manuscript (1987)
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The author received an Arthur C. Parker grant ($700) in 1982 to study the Silverheels material. This research was conducted in1983 and the final report uploaded here was completed in 1987. It was never published. The author now feels that early 17th century "Seneca-style" ceramics, i.e. those with applique on the collar (Genoa Frilled, Seneca Barbed, etc.) form a horizon style throughout the Northeast. It seems unlikely this is the result of the relocation of women from the Seneca region.
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Silverheels SIte Regrouped Ceramic Data (1974)
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ceramic data from the Silverheels Site (Erie) with regrouped attributes
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Silverheels Whole Vessels (1983)
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These vessels were photographed in 1983 by Hillel Burger and are reproduced courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard. Photo No. N30623, Cat. No. 63870 (Genoa Frilled); N30624, Cat. No. 63898 (Lawson Incised with handles); N30625, Cat. No. 63801 (Lawson Opposed - high neck); N30626, Cat. No. 63728 (Richmond Incised ?).
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Simmons (1969)
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Simmons Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Simmons Site (Erie) with regrouped attributes
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Smith (1969)
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Smith Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Smith Site (Mohawk) with regrouped attributes
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Smokes Creek (R. Haas) (1993)
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Smokes Creek (R. Haas) Sherd Images (1993)
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Scanned photos of rim sherds from the Smokes Creek (R. Haas) site in Orchard Park, NY.
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Stewart (1990)
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A Stylistic Analysis of New York Iroquois Pottery (1971)
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The central question addressed in this dissertation was whether the League of the Iroquois was reflected ceramically. A clear reflection of this was not found, but there was increasing similarity between areas through time, including the Niagara Frontier, outside the geographic area of the original Iroquois Confederacy. The ceramic methodology and the sites used are discussed.
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Swarthout (1990)
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Swarthout (View) (1974)
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These two photos of the Swarthout site were taken by Earl Sidler sometime in the early 1970's.
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Swarthout Regrouped Attribute Data (1990)
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Swarthout Sherd Images (2012)
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These photos were produced for Earl Sicler (a SUNY/Buffalo grad student) in the early 1970's.
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Talcott Falls (1990)
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Talcott Falls Regrouped Ceramic Attributes (1990)
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Talcott Falls Sherd Images (2012)
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The first photo scanned of sherds from Harvard Peabody was produced for Earl Sidler in the early 1970's. Sidler was then a grad student at SUNY/Buffalo. This photo was probably made by Gordon Schmahl. The remaining photos were done by Robert Weber in 1967. The last photo is of a ceramic pipe. Weber was also a grad student at SUNY/Buffalo and these photos were likely done in the NYS Museum. All these photos are in the Sidler Collection, now in the posession of Tim Abel of Jefferson Co.
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Temperance House (1969)
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Temperance House Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Temperance House Site (Onondaga) with regrouped attributes
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Thurston (1969)
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Thurston Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Thurston Site (Oneida) with regrouped attributes
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Tift (1990)
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Treadway (1990)
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Wagner's Hollow (1969)
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Wagners Hollow Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Wagners Hollow Site (Mohawk) with regrouped attributes
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Warren (1970)
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Warren Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1970)
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ceramic data from the Warren Site (Seneca) with regrouped attributes
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Wayland Smith (1969)
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Wayland-Smith Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
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ceramic data from the Wayland-Smith Site (Oneida) with regrouped attributes
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Whitford (1990)
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Whitford Regrouped Ceramic Data (1990)
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Whitford Sherd Images (2012)
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These scanned photos were made in the early 1970's, probably by Gordon Schmahl, technical specialist in the Anthropology Department, SUNY/Buffalo. They are in the Earl Sidler collection, now the property of Tim Abel. There are a total of 95 photos of Whitford rim sherds. Only the most complete rim sherds are pictured here.